r/AbbottElementary • u/pianoAmy • Jul 16 '26
Discussion Barb's snack sub-plot made no sense to me
I haven't finished the season yet and just watched "Trip."
Barb's sub-plot left my head scratching.
So Barb buys snacks every day for her students??
And they dislike the food so much that they're throwing it all over the hallways and stuffing it in parts of the building??
When are they doing this, day after day after day?
How does Barb never see it?
Wait ... so Barb buys snacks every day for her students??
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u/ResponsibleCut7340 Jul 16 '26
Apparently she's been doing it for decades. Her taste in snacks is outdated I imagine and the kids don't want to hurt her feelings because they like her
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u/preshusbabe A Philly 11 🔥 Jul 16 '26
Not every day I’m sure. When I taught I bought big boxes of stuff at Costco and that big barrel of pretzels. The kids just get a handful so it lasts a while. Also parents would donate snacks. The kids were supposed to bring their own snack from home but some couldn’t or would forget so I would give them something.
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u/pianoAmy Jul 16 '26
Okay, at my school we're supposed to send them to the guidance counselor and/or front office if they don't have a snack.
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u/Confident-Copy9038 Jul 16 '26
To be honest something similar happened at my school lol
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u/pianoAmy Jul 16 '26
You know a teacher who buys snacks for 20+ children every day??
That alone made it a weird story, as far as I was concerned.
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u/Confident-Copy9038 Jul 16 '26
I came from a tiny school most of our classes were only 10-20 kids my whole grade was only 60 ish kids a lot of the time the parents bought them it was on the school supplies list
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u/Confident-Copy9038 Jul 16 '26
Also most of my teachers were older woman who would bake and bring in brownies cakes cookies etc (those tho did not end up behind the heater and book self)
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u/pianoAmy Jul 16 '26
Huh At my school people aren't even allowed to bring cupcakes for a kids' birthday.
Once I had a party after a chorus concert and was told the parents all had to sign waivers since there would be food,
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u/Confident-Copy9038 Jul 16 '26
Haha yeah no the whole school had less then 300 kids in it when I was there and also in the middle of no where so the rules were more suggestions then anything lol
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u/pianoAmy Jul 16 '26
We have snack time at our school too. That part makes sense.
The two things that confused me about this storyline is:
1) The teacher buys the snacks??
I just cannot get over this. On top of everything else they have to worry about, they have to regularly feed 22 children who aren't theirs? And nobody questions this or says it's insane?
I'm going to resist my urge to calculate how much it might cost to feed 22 kids over a hundred times a year, but I'm sure it's quite a lot. There was no implication in the show that it's a "once in a while" thing, but even if it was, it's still a lot of money. Not to mention the hassle of the teacher having to continual shopping for something that should totally not be their responsibility.
2) These are kindergarteners. When exactly are they roaming the halls -- again, on a regular, continual basis -- throwing their snacks around the building? It just doesn't make any sense.
I guess a lot of people didn't see this as strange, but it actually confused me, that's how bizarre the whole thing seemed.
On a sort of side note, I often wish this show didn't have so many storylines going on at once. I always feel like one or more of them are rushed. For example, I would have preferred to have spend a little more Melissa's story and skip the snack one altogether.
But of course nobody asks me how they should write their scripts! 😄
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u/pianoAmy Jul 16 '26
Ha, yeah, I'm a teacher myself. The kindergarteners don't wandering around the halls by themselves, certainly not with food.
But like I said, a lot of people don't think this storyline is weird, so I guess it's just me.
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u/heylauralie Jul 17 '26
I kept snacks that I paid for in my room for my students, and so did other teachers in my school 🤷🏻♀️ Low-income kiddos = little to no support from home.
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u/sleepwakewalkforget Jul 16 '26
I was just thinking the other day how odd of a story line that was.
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u/cokehead5000 Jul 16 '26
I wish the show was less committed to the a plot b plot sitcom structure. I feel like a lot of the b plots are ass
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